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English

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Etymology

Aphetic form ofacute, originally meaning “keenly perceptive or discerning, shrewd” (1731). Meaning transferred to “pretty, fetching” by US students (slang)c. 1834. Meaning drifted further to describe the pleasing attraction to features usually possessed by the young.

Pronunciation

Adjective

cute (comparativecuter,superlativecutest)

  1. Possessing physical features,behaviors, personality traits or other properties that are mainly attributed toinfants and small orcuddly animals;e.g. fair, dainty, round, and soft physical features, disproportionately large eyes and head, playfulness, fragility, helplessness, curiosity or shyness, innocence, affectionate behavior.
    Our reaction tocute attributes is understood as the way nature ensures mammals care for their young.
  2. Lovable,charming,attractive orpleasing, especially in ayouthful,dainty,quaint or fun-spirited way.
    Let's go to the mall and look forcute girls.
  3. Sexually attractive or pleasing;gorgeous.
    He's got suchcutebuns.
    • 2010, Vernon J. Geberth,Sex-Related Homicide and Death Investigation, page116:
      I ordered her to strip for me and made her wiggle hercute little ass as she took off her panties.
  4. Affected orcontrived to charm;mincingly clever;precious;cutesy.
    The actor's performance was toocute for me. All that mugging to the audience killed the humor.
    Don't getcute with me, boy!
    • 1957 May, William P. McGivern,Alfred Hitchcock's Suspense Magazine, page102, column 2:
      "This time we aren't interested in anythingcute or cryptic. We want the truth."
  5. Mentallykeen ordiscerning (See alsoacute)
    Synonyms:clever,shrewd
    • ca. 1850. Anonymous, "Turpin Hero" (broadside ballad, probably originally dating to 18th century)
      ThenTurpin being so verycute,
      He hid his money in his boot.
    • 1908, Winston Churchill,Letter to his fianceé Clementine:
      'Filled with old doddering peers,cute financial magnates, clever wirepullers, big brewers with bulbous noses. All the enemies of progress are there — weaklings, sleek, slug, comfortable, self-important individuals.
    • 1925 July –1926 May,A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, inThe Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia:Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
      "The police arecute enough, of course, to choose either a Roman Catholic or a materialist as the magistrate."
    Cute trick, but can you do it consistently?
  6. (especially mathematics)Evincing cleverness; surprising in itselegance orunconventionality (but of limited importance).
    There's acute alternative proof of this using lambda calculus.
    • 1963,The Tablet‎[1], volume217:
      Cute solution to pin one Knight by unpinning the other and so force discovered guard for the Bishop: it took me hours to find that Bishop key.
    • 2012, “Vertex neighborhoods, low conductance cuts, and good seeds for local community methods”, inProceedings of the 18th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining‎[2]:
      We state acute result that can be derived from our calcuations[sic]. It is not applied anywhere later, but shows that graphs with heavy tails and large clustering coefficients have large cores.

Usage notes

All meanings except for the first one are less commonly found outside of North America.

Synonyms

  • (having features mainly attributed to infants and small or cuddly animals):endearing
  • (attractive or pleasing in a youthful, dainty, quaint or fun-spirited way):pretty

Derived terms

Terms derived fromcute

Descendants

Translations

having features mainly attributed to infants and small or cuddly animals
attractive or pleasing in a youthful, dainty, quaint or fun-spirited way
dated: mentally keen or discerning; clever, shrewd

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed fromEnglishcute.

Adjective

cute

  1. (youthful) cute,adorable
    • 2010, Kirsten Sonne Harild,Pony & Co. 4 - Lises forvandling, Gyldendal A/S,→ISBN:
      „De er sådan lidt tegneserieagtige, ikke? Ligesom shetlændere.Cute.
      (pleaseadd an English translation of this quotation)
    • 2010, Jesper Staunstrup,At være fremmed..., BoD – Books on Demand,→ISBN, page187:
      Dyret er altså bare ikkecute... Det er en stor rottelignende dræber, der er altædende.
      (pleaseadd an English translation of this quotation)
  2. (youthful)sweet,attractive (of a person, especially a prospective partner)

Synonyms

Italian

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Etymology

Borrowed fromLatincutis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈku.te/
  • Rhymes:-ute
  • Hyphenation:cù‧te

Noun

cute f (pluralcuti)

  1. (anatomy)cutis,skin (of a person)
    Synonym:pelle

Derived terms

Latin

Noun

cute

  1. ablativesingular ofcutis

Middle English

Noun

cute

  1. Alternative form ofcote(“coot”)

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

Adjective

cute

  1. locativesingularmasculine/neuter &accusativepluralmasculine &vocativesingularfeminine ofcuta,which ispastparticiple ofcavati(“todie away from aworld”)

Romanian

Etymology

Inherited fromLatincōtem, accusative ofcōs. The expected result would have been*coate in Romanian, but may have been influenced bycuțit andascuți.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

cute f (pluralcute)

  1. whetstone
    Synonym:gresie

References

  1. ^cute inDEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Vietnamese

Etymology

FromEnglishcute.

Pronunciation

Adjective

cute

  1. cute
    Con cúncute quá. ―What acute puppy.
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